getting dirt out of white baseball uniform

[mjh8955]

Great suggestions! I wouldn't care so much about the dirt except it's picture day and I didn't want him to look like the kid with the mother who doesn't know how to do laundry!!!!

 

[cgmac12]

My son is a catcher for a Select ball team- our Sunday uniform is white.

Since our pants have purple and gold piping I have to be careful what I use on them. The best thing I have found is Iron Out. You get it at walmart on the cleaning aisle, down by the plumbing stuff. It is a powder. I make a paste of it and let it sit for about five minutes. Then I rinse the pants in the sink and wash like normal.

If the stains are particularly bad that weekend, I will spray some Mean Green (a cleaner I have only found at the dollar store) on the stain after the Iron Out. Then into the washer it goes with a double dose of Oxy.

Hope this helps!

Crystal

 

[AInWonderland]

I use gel cascade. It always works great for me.

 

[ncbyrne]

My son plays football, on his dirty grass stained pants I use a soap called Felsnaptha. You can find it with the detergents, it is a bar soap. Get the stains wet and the rub the soap in. Sometimes I scrub the tough ones with a small brush. Then I wash a ususal. It works quite well. Good Luck!

I agree with a bar of felsnaptha! It's as old fashioned as you can get, but you can't beat it! Not that you have one, but felsnaptha and a scrub board will can any fabric clean. Since you probably do have a scrub brush, use that instead.

 

[eh24fan]

Get out the dirt? HAHAHAHAHAHA My son had stains that I can't get out after the first game a week and a half ago. I gave up after bleaching them 2 times with hot water and gain. I figure why bother? He's only going to get them even worse with the next game. LOL They've had pictures done already, so I'm not going to worry about it anymore. This year they got smart and did them BEFORE the kids ever played a game.

 

[mjh8955]

Well, I no longer am worried about what my son will look like in the group picture. I just found out that two of the players got accidently sprayed with ketchup on the way home from last night's games and THEIR mothers could only get the stains to a light pink before pictures today

 

[Shopping Queen]

Soak and wash in BIZ . Works for me every time .

 

[KKB]

We use Oxy/shout...let it set..wash...still some residue.

Some of the moms said that Scrubbing Bubbles (yes, toilet cleaner!) is what the semi-pro team in town uses...worth a try.

Personally, I can't tell from the stands. And frankly, it is dirty within half an inning anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!

I prefer to spend time on things that are important to ME! (so call me selfish!)

 

[dizkids]

I use Oxyclean on every stain. I use the powder and make a paste and rub it in with a old toothbrush and let it sit overnight, always worked for me.

I AGREE! My sons baseball uniform is soaking as i speak. It is light gray pants. I use HOT HOT water. Soak it overnight in the bathroom sink ..which is the only reason i find use for my 2nd sink....then if i need to do it one more night i will but it always comes out...even grass stains. Good luck!

Poor thing with white.....i thought the gray was bad.

 

[englishteacha]

I don't understand why uniform pants are white. It seems very silly to me! I also don't think it's fair to make middle school girls wear white shorts for basketball, either. If you've ever been a middle school girl you know why I think this is cruel!

 

[KDIPIAZZ]

My son has played for 8 years and is now playing on a travel team as well. I start the season with 3 pairs of pants as it always helps to have at least one spare pair. next year, his uniform will FINALLY have black pants and i CAN'T WAIT!!

Zout is a much better stain remover than Shout or Spray N Wash, but I've found that carpet cleaner (even the cheap stuff from the dollar store) is much more effective.

After a game, I spray the pants down with carpet spot remover and let them sit overnight. The next morning, I use a nail brush and fels naptha soap on the knees. I then wash them on the sanitary cycle (hottest cycle possible) with Cascade Complete instead of laundry detergent. Before I have a front-laoder, i would boil them on top of the stove. Finally, I always hang the pants outside to dry - the sun helps to fade anything that I missed.

This has worked for me for both grass, clay, regular dirt and cheese sauce (I hate cheesy fries!).... even on pants that have been passed down from previous seasons - I've had parents specifically ask for my kids' pants after the season is overbecasue they are stain-free and white instead of yellow or grayish.

 

[louise']

Alot of bleach takes all the stains out of baseball pants for my kids.

 

[Clued In]

Powder dishwasher detergent like Cascade. I had a friend whose boys white uniforms always look so white and this is what she uses. Well I'm now using it as well. Felsnaptha works great on tough stains as well.

BOBCAT, the powered dishwasher detergent sounds great. Gets my dishes clean after all. Tell me how you use it. A paste? In place of laundry detergent? Would really like to try it.

It use to be that I could use Dawn directly to get out a lot of things. Dawn stopped saying "Gets the grease out," and with that I noticed, it doesn't work as well any more on grease spots or dirt.

 

[mickeyboat]

Zombie thread!

Anyway - I soak stained things overnight in cold water with Oxyclean powder dissolved in it. That method has cleaned many softball stains, chocolate milk on white pants stains, blood stains, etc.

I use Dawn foaming dish soap on grase stains. It works even after things have been washed and dried and put away for months before I realized there was a stain. I can't believe I did not know about that sooner.

 

[Cindy B]

My friend boils (on the stove top) her sons football and baseball pants. It seems to help-even though it does look a bit gross!

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Zombie thread!

Anyway - I soak stained things overnight in cold water with Oxyclean powder dissolved in it. That method has cleaned many softball stains, chocolate milk on white pants stains, blood stains, etc.

I use Dawn foaming dish soap on grase stains. It works even after things have been washed and dried and put away for months before I realized there was a stain. I can't believe I did not know about that sooner.

Well Mickeyboat it is the Zombie season

 

[aliceindisneyland]

Costco Kirkland industrial powdered detergent. ANYTHING - tomato sauce stain I dried, grease stains, and yes, the blood, sweat, tears, dirt, Gatorade and grass on baseball pants - comes out. Start with a scoop and a hot wash with a 2 hour soak, check it, and go from there. The worst stain the Costco detergent ever got out was the dryer-set tomato sauce stain on a white cotton shirt. I soaked it for 3 days in a bucket with 2 scoops of the detergent. Still hopeless on day 2. On day 3 the stain had disappeared.
Original Wisk is a great pretreater and the enzymes help with the baseball stains (blood, grass). I put it in a Zout bottle with Wisk:Water 1:5. Wisk pretreater plus 1 hour soak in hot with the Costco detergent got the baseball pants clean every time last season.

 

[CuteAndFluffy]

It use to be that I could use Dawn directly to get out a lot of things. Dawn stopped saying "Gets the grease out," and with that I noticed, it doesn't work as well any more on grease spots or dirt.

Old school blue Dawn still works for lots of things. All the new ones have stuff added, but the old one is still amazing.

As for the grass stains, I do a soak in hot water with Oxyclean powder and wash as usual.

 

[tiggerluver12]

mjh8995 I just sent you a private message with instructions for using a product called "Iron Out" Can find in your local Lowe's or Home Depot. Works miracles on baseball/softball pants that are stained with that yucky red dirt.

 

[bobcat]

BOBCAT, the powered dishwasher detergent sounds great. Gets my dishes clean after all. Tell me how you use it. A paste? In place of laundry detergent? Would really like to try it.

It use to be that I could use Dawn directly to get out a lot of things. Dawn stopped saying "Gets the grease out," and with that I noticed, it doesn't work as well any more on grease spots or dirt.

Revived from the dead!

I always used it in place of regular detergent, making a paste on the tough spots as needed.